| 100% | NAMEOFTHEGAME | 13 | Something's essential aspect ... or what's spelled out by letters in this puzzle's eight "cups" |
| 53% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 52% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 51% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 51% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |
| 50% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | PLOT | 4 | What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 47% | SURPRISEPARTIES | 15 | Celebrations planned in secrecy ... or what's revealed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 45% | YOUREMUTED | 10 | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| 45% | TARA | 4 | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| 44% | PHYSICS | 7 | Science that deals with the phenomenon spelled out by 10 missing letters in this puzzle |
| 43% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 42% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 42% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 42% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 42% | COMPRESSEDAIR | 13 | Gas station supply ... or what can be found eight times in this puzzle? |
| 41% | FLIPS | 5 | What each word of six or more letters in this puzzle does |
| 41% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 41% | BLACKOPS | 8 | Covert missions ... or what's covert in eight of this puzzle's answers |
| 40% | THELOCUSTTREEINFLOWER | 21 | 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 40% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 40% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 40% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 40% | KNOCKONWOOD | 11 | "Let's hope so!," or what is found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 40% | INFANT | 6 | One delivered by the labor specialist spelled out in the circled letters that touch six dividing black squares in this puzzle |
| 40% | EPICENTER | 9 | Point hit hard by an earthquake... or what's found in this puzzle's themed answers |
| 39% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 39% | LOSTART | 7 | Letter writing, they say ... or a hint to eight answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |